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people, since such low paid servants are naturally tempted to commit illegal acts. It therefore recommends an increase to the said salaries.
The same paper (received 5th June) reports that a person belonging to a toddy shop near the police station (at Nabobpet, Nellore) went about the street where the office of the paper is situated bawling and tomtoming inviting purchasers to buy his toddy from morning till 10° clock in the night for about 20 days from 10th to 31st May 1901. The police never took any notice of this nuisance, though it was troublesome to the inhabitants in the said street. The paper asks if it is allowable to proclaim the sale of intoxicating drinks by crying aloud in the streets, is no wrong committed, it questions, in inducing people to become drunkards. The Collector and the Police Superintendent are requested to enquire into the subject and to prevent all such irregularities in future.
Page 197, May 11th 1901, The Runga Reddy Murder Case
The A.G. of 11th May, while referring to the Judgment of the High Court in the Runga Reddy murder case, says that the whole of the Madras Presidency is moved with grief and surprise at the judgement, as the murder was committed in broad day light, in an open place and in the presence of the cart driver and two other men. That such an act should have been daringly committed under the British Regime and that the murderers should be at large undetected frighten every man. The panic caused among the people at and around Gooty consequent on this murder is indescriable The paper requests the government to offer reward so that to detect the culprits and to issue strict orders to the police authorities to make all necessary inquiries into the case.
Page 267, May 25h 1901, The Jamabandi
The A.G. of the 25th May, observes that the Jamabandi is a useless business. It is not known to the people, it says if the Jamabandi of Nellore has recently taken place nor do they know who the Jamabandi officer was. There is no good whatever resulting from Jamabandi except that the village, taluq and huzur officers are subjected to fruitless trouble, the ryots being saddled with the village expenses, etc. Even the pattas granted in the Jamabandi are not given to each ryot. The village authorities of Kodur
